Films - RAI FILM

RAI FILM

Film list

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The Log Rafters of Lake Aegeri 2016 29‘

Material Culture Directed by Thomas Horat .

Aegeri, in a remote part of Switzerland, is one of the few lakes in Central Europe where professional log rafters can still be found. This film is based on the gentle observation of the work of a

Western Europe Material Culture Labour Rural

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Travel 2016 63‘

Special Interest Directed by Nick Mai .

(This version of the film is edited using a single screen. For the split screen version see ‘Travel – double screen version’). Joy left Nigeria to help her family after her father’s death. She

Western Europe Sex / Sexuality Labour Migration Ethnofiction Informant-researcher relationship Reflexivity

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Travel (double screen) 2016 63‘

Directed by Nick Mai .

(This version of the film uses a split-screen device throughout. For the single screen version see ‘Travel’). Joy left Nigeria to help her family after her father’s death. She knew that she was

Western Europe Sex / Sexuality Labour Migration Ethnofiction Reflexivity

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Extended Family 2016 31‘

Student Directed by Ramona Sonderegger .

This films offers an intimate insight into the lives of two same-sex families who found a way to create themselves within a legal grey area in Switzerland. Swiss law bans adoption and access to

Western Europe LGBTQI* Family / Kinship Sex / Sexuality Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy

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Ghetto PSA 2016 15‘

Special Interest Directed by Rossella Schillaci .

Jacob arrived in Italy alone from French Guinea when he was 11 years old. Today he is 27, and hip hop music is his whole world: it is his way to express dreams, hopes and frustrations, and to not

Western Europe Music / Ethnomusicology Migration Education / Knowledge Transmission